Reviews

Review The mid-travel, mid-sized wheel 5010 has always been the rowdy rider's bike in the Santa Cruz range. We test the brand-new fourth-generation bike to see if some big changes have altered its chaos-loving character

Review Leatt’s DBX mountain bike kit delivers extra weatherproofing without sacrificing all-mountain style and protection

Review Leatt’s most affordable and most expensive AM helmets are both based around Turbine 360 G-force reduction and a similar increased protection head form. So what are the differences between them?

Review SRAM’s Eagle spreads its wings further with wider ratio range, better shifting and new colour options

Review Coros wants to add extra safety to your ride while bringing the hills alive with the sound of music with its Safe Sound Mountain Helmet

Review Merida's eONE-SIXTY Limited Edition is a new aluminium version of its 'SUV' enduro eMTB range, but how capable is it?

Review Giro’s new Ventana mountain bike shoe takes elements from its multi-award-winning Chamber DH shoe and adds a state of the art trail upper. BikePerfect has been busy blurring the gravity and anti-gravity line to check it out

Review Does Giro’s unique new Manifest ‘double-decker’ trail helmet really vent as well as a road race lid while still providing state of the art ‘slip-plane’ brain protection?

Review How does a faster dry/loose race tyre designed by one of the best DH racers in the world work out as a trail tyre?

Review We've been getting the thrills and a few spills in while wearing the latest summer threads from Specialized to see how they hold up to trail life

Review Pivot teams up with Topeak and the result is a pricey but ingeniously designed tool system

Review Giant’s new Line trail shoes have a distinct split personality. We have been kicking around in them for the past couple of months to find out how they perform

Review If Crocs made a mountain bike shoe it would probably be a lot like Giant’s Transmit, but we don't think that’s a bad thing

Review PNW’s latest Rainier dropper seatpost is designed to avoid all the reliability, limited frame space, fixed stroke and excess price issues of other options. We find out if the small Seattle firm has delivered on its big promises

Review After decades of protecting your bike from the weather, Muc-Off is now doing the same for riders. Guy Kesteven has been finding out how the Technical Riders jacket, jersey, shorts and gloves compare to benchmark gear

Review Cannondale’s Habit mountain bike is specifically designed for fun and flow, but can this affordable alloy version still deliver a good time?

Review We take a closer look at Endura's new MT500 Kali jersey, Singletrack Lite shorts and Humvee Lite Icon gloves

Review We’re big fans of Fizik’s weather-beating X2 Terra Clima mountain bike boot, but how do their lightweight trail/enduro shoes perform?

Review Canyon has rebuilt its proven lightweight 130mm Neuron trail bike with SLX-race-bike DNA and a top-level spec